Jumping droplets repel each other

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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe Water droplets that form on strongly repellent surfaces often coalesce and leap off. When they do, they carry an electric charge that can be


used to control them. The authors suggest that this electrostatic effect could be exploited to remove or manipulate the droplets, and so produce surfaces that can be easily cleaned or


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permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Jumping droplets repel each other. _Nature_ 502, 8 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/502008c Download citation * Published: 02 October 2013 *


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